Format a number for use as number in Excel

I want to format a number like "#,##0.00" in order to handle it in Excel as a number (i.e. compute a sum).

Excel is able to show a number in a specail format and still allow to compute with ...

Thanks in advance,

Peter

What problem are you having? If you have #,##0.00 set as your format code, you should be able to export to Excel and then do a sum on that column.

Jarret

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It doesn't work in my Excel neither with 1 value nor with many values - the sum is 0 anytime.

Peter

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I found this on another post (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1072895&SiteID=1):

Apply formatting using N in the Format property, then in the value textbox, apply an explicit cast of the value. E.g.

=CDbl(Fields!Example.Value)

Hope this helps.

Jarret